1 Altered atmospheric composition, associated with climate change, can modify herbivore population dynamics through CO2 and/or O3-mediated changes in plant quality. 2 Although pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum genotypes exhibit intraspecific variation in population growth in response to atmospheric composition, the proximate mechanisms underlying this variation are largely unknown. 3 By rearing sin...

OBJECTIVE To study an array of household individual and dietary risk factors for neurolathyrism. METHOD Case-control study using recent cases in a district highly affected by the recent neurolathyrism epidemic in Ethiopia: 108 households with cases and 104 households with no cases; 170 neurolathyrism cases, 370 intra-family controls and 170 community controls frequency matched for age and sex...

The blood pressure lowering effect of a pea protein hydrolysate (PPH) that contained <3 kDa peptides, isolated by membrane ultrafiltration from the thermolysin digest of pea protein isolate (PPI), was examined using different rat models of hypertension as well as hypertensive human subjects. The PPH showed weak in vitro activities against renin and angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) with inhib...

Biomass of legumes grown as catch crops improves soil properties and thus soil conditions for following crops. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of field pea (Pisum sativum L.) grown as a catch crop and used for green manure on soil properties and yielding of spring barley (Hordeum vulgare L.). Field experiments were conducted in 2008-2011 in the randomized block design with ...

The cellular and subcellular localization of endogenous nitric oxide (NO.) in leaves from young and senescent pea (Pisum sativum) plants was studied. Confocal laser scanning microscopy analysis of pea leaf sections with the fluorescent probe 4,5-diaminofluorescein diacetate revealed that endogenous NO. was mainly present in vascular tissues (xylem and phloem). Green fluorescence spots were also...

samples of grass pea seed (lathyrus sativus) were prepared and analyzed for some chemical composition and as well for their anti-nutritional factors. the rumen degradability coefficients and post ruminal digestibility of dry matter and crude protein of unheated vs. oven heated samples were determined, employing in situ and in vitro techniques. results indicated that grass pea seed contained a c...

Fish protein hydrolysate was produced from Salmon (Salmo salar) skin using Alcalase® 2.4 L. Hydrolysis conditions were optimized by using a response surface methodology (RSM). The model equation was proposed with regard to the effects of enzyme to substrate level, temperature and pH on the degree of hydrolysis. An enzyme to substrate level of 2.50% (v/w), temperature of 55.30°C and pH of 8.39 a...

Santalla, M., Amurrio, J. M. and De Ron, A. M. 2001. Food and feed potential breeding value of green, dry and vegetable pea germplasm. Can. J. Plant Sci. 81: 601–610. Pea is an important grain legume and vegetable in the South of Europe where it is grown on small farms and gardens using traditional varieties and methods during the winter. Variability in old, unimproved varieties needs to be det...